Said Hammami

Said Hammami (1941-4 January 1978) was the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) representative to the United Kingdom. He was assassinated during Operation Wrath of God.

Biography
Said Hammami was born in 1941 in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine (Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel) to a Palestinian family. His family moved to Egypt, Lebanon, and then Jordan during the Nakba, and he joined the Syrian Ba'ath Party. In May 1964, he left the Ba'athists to join the recently-established Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In 1973 he was appointed as the PLO ambassador to the United Kingdom, residing in London.

On 4 January 1978, during Operation Wrath of God, he was shot in killed in his office, either by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency (which was hunting down several PLO leaders) or the Abu Nidal Organization.